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RAQS
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Jun 09, 2021

BIG-IP | F5 LTM | Decomission

Hi All,   Hope all of you are doing well!   We have migrated application from old F5 to new F5. Now we want to decommission old F5.   Can you please help me with best practice/steps to de...
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jaikumar_f5
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Jun 13, 2021

Different org's have their own practices. Depending upon on how you plan to repurpose it, the process differs.

Either you can simply keep the network settings (mgmt, vlan, interfaces, gateway etc etc settings) intact & just delete the configuration (bigip.conf) or load a dummy config file. Or if you have no plans to reuse it for now, you can simply go with default factory reset - https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13127

 

And then when you intend to reuse it, you can follow your own onboarding process. There is no hard and fast rule on this.

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Jun 15, 2021

Thanks JaiKumar for replying.

 

So when we restore it default setting then i can see we will have management access. But account password will be removed. So post that will be able to login with default username and password ?

 

Regards,

Raqs